Timeline of the introduction of television in countries

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A map showing when television was introduced in each country.

  1930 to 1939

  1940 to 1949

  1950 to 1959

  1960 to 1969

  1970 to 1979

  1980 to 1989

  1990 to 1999

  After 2000

  No television

  No data

This is a list of when the first publicly announced television broadcasts occurred in the mentionerd countries. Non-public field tests and closed circuit demonstrations are not included. This list should not be interpreted to mean the whole of a country had television service by the specified date. For example, the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and the former Soviet Union all had operational television stations and a limited number of viewers by the year 1939. However, in those countries, only very few cities in each country had television service. Television broadcasts were not yet available in most places.

Year	Countries
1928	United States (Mechanical television) [1]
1929	United Kingdom (Mechanical),[2]  Germany (Mechanical) [3]
1931	France (Mechanical),  Canada (Quebec only),  Soviet Union (Mechanical)
1935	Germany (Intermediate film; semi-electronic),  Mexico (Experimental)
1936	United Kingdom (Electronic - BBC Television Service),  Germany (Electronic television - Deutscher Fernseh Rundfunk),  United States (Electronic; experimental and non-commercial until 1941 - NBC) [4]
1937	Free City of Danzig (Electronic),  France (Electronic),[5]  Poland (Mechanical) [6]
1938	Soviet Union (electronic)
1939	Japan (Electronic),[7]  Italy (Electronic),[8]  Poland (Electronic) [6]
1942	Occupied France
1944	France (Returned)
1945	Soviet Union (returned) [9]
1946	United Kingdom (Returned),[10]  Mexico (full service),[11]  Philippines (Experimental)
1948	Czechoslovakia (Experimental),[12]  Chile (Experimental),  Netherlands (Experimental)
1950	Cuba,  Brazil,  Switzerland,  West Germany (experimental)
1951	Argentina,  Denmark,[13]  Netherlands,  Japan (Returned)
1952	Canada,  Chile (Sporadically until 1956),  Dominican Republic,  West Germany (full service),  East Germany (experimental),  Poland (Returned),  Thailand (Experimental),  United Kingdom ( Scotland),  Venezuela
1953	United States ( Alaska),  Belgium,[14]  Czechoslovakia,  Philippines (thru ABS, now ABS-CBN),  United Kingdom ( Northern Ireland)
1954	Colombia,  United States ( Hawaii),  Italy,  Morocco  Puerto Rico,  Monaco,  Norway (experimental)
1955	Finland, 30  Guatemala,  Luxembourg,  Romania (experimental),  Thailand (Official by TTV(4), Now Modernine TV)
1956	Australia, Algeria,  Austria,  Azerbaijan, Cyprus,  East Germany (full service),  Guam,  Iraq,  Nicaragua,  Romania,  South Korea,  Spain,  Philippines,  Panama,  Portugal (experimental),  Sweden,  Uruguay, Yugoslavia [15]
1957	Chile, (full-service)  Finland,  Hong Kong,[16]  Hungary,  Kuwait,  Lithuanian SSR (in 1990 declared independence as  Lithuania) [17]
1958	Bermuda,  China, Moldova,  El Salvador,  Iran,  Peru,
1959	Bulgaria,  Ecuador,  Haiti,  Honduras,  India,  Lebanon,  Nigeria, Ryukyu Islands [18]
1960	Costa Rica,  Albania,  Netherlands Antilles,  New Zealand,  Southern Rhodesia, {{country data Trucial States|flagu/core|name=Trucial States|variant=|size=}} (Egypt and Syria),  Norway (full service)
1961	Ireland,[19]  Northern Rhodesia,  U.S. Virgin Islands
1962	Côte d'Ivoire,  Republic of the Congo,  Kenya,  Malta,[20]  Indonesia,  Sierra Leone,  Republic of China,[21]  Trinidad and Tobago,  Gibraltar,[22]  Sudan
1963	Bolivia,  North Korea, French Polynesia,  Gabon,  Malaysia,  Singapore,  Jamaica,  Uganda,  Upper Volta
1964	American Samoa  Barbados, East Pakistan,  Ethiopia Guadeloupe,  Liberia, Martinique, Mauritius,  North Yemen, West Pakistan,  Réunion,  Suriname,  United Kingdom ( Wales) [23]
1965	Ghana,  New Caledonia,  Paraguay,  Senegal
1966	Cambodia,  Congo-Kinshasa,  Greece,  Tunisia,  Iceland,  Israel,[24] South Vietnam
1967	Djibouti, French Guiana,  Mongolia,  Saint Pierre and Miquelon,  Madagascar,  Saint Lucia
1968	Turkey,  Jordan,  Equatorial Guinea,  Libya
1969	Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands,  United Arab Emirates,  SR Bosnia and Herzegovina
1970	Qatar, North Vietnam
1972	Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla
1973	Bahrain,  Niger,  Tanzania,  Togo,  British Virgin Islands
1974	Afghanistan,  Central African Republic,  Grenada,  Oman,
1975	Angola,  Dominica,  Brunei,  Tuvalu,  South Yemen, Wallis and Futuna Islands
1976	South Africa
1977	Bahamas,[25]  Guinea, East Timor
1978	Benin,  Liechtenstein,  Lesotho,  Maldives,  Swaziland
1979	Burma,[26]  Mali,  Mozambique,  Sri Lanka,  Somalia,  Zambia
1980	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
1981	Belize, Macau, South West Africa
1982	Mauritania[27]
1983	Andorra,  Antigua and Barbuda,  Cambodia (Returned),  Cameroon,    Nepal,  Seychelles,  Vatican City,[28]  Laos[29]
1984	Burundi,  Cape Verde,  Chad,  Comoros,  Faroe Islands
1986	Mayotte,  Niue,  Papua New Guinea
1989	Cook Islands,  San Marino,  Western Samoa
1991	Cayman Islands,  Falkland Islands,[30]  Fiji[31]  Guyana,  Nauru,  Sao Tome and Principe
1992	Botswana,  Solomon Islands,  Vanuatu
1993	Eritrea,  Rwanda
1995	Gambia,  Guinea-Bissau,  Kiribati,  Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha,  Turks and Caicos Islands
1996	Malawi,  Greenland,  Palau
1999	Bhutan[32]
2000	Tonga
2004	Kiribati (native - closed in 2013)
2007	Åland[33]
2008	Liechtenstein
2009	Papua New Guinea (native)